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If You Voted for my Book, Thank You!! :)

If you voted for my book “Chase Tinker and the House of Magic” for Book of the Month, thank you!!!

It won! Yaaaaay!! :)

Hey everyone!

Could you please PLEASE vote for my book “Chase Tinker and the House of Magic” for Book of the Month on this popular, book website? I can really use your help. You don’t have to have read it. It’s just picking it to be the Book of the Month. And it could really use the exposure.

http://www.readfree.ly/help-choose-our-next-book-of-the-month/

Thank you!!!! ❤ 😊

Malia

And if the link takes you to the website’s home page, just close it and click on it again to make it work.

 

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The writer-reader connection is delicate.

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Book Giveaways in 2018

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BOOK GIVEAWAYS

Two of the most popular methods that authors and publishers use to hold contests for book giveaways have changed.

• Amazon Giveaways have undergone a series of changes.
• Goodreads Giveaways changed significantly as of January, 2018.

So 2018 is a good time for a new post regarding how to host a book giveaway.

WHY HOST A GIVEAWAY?

A giveaway is one tool that authors and publishers utilize to help with book marketing.

Following are the main goals for a book giveaway.

• Help create buzz and initial exposure for a new book release.
• Give the author a chance to call attention (in other forms of marketing) to a contest, rather than always calling attention directly to the book.
• Hope that some of the winners will write book reviews.
• Hope that the winners love the book so much that they help with word-of-mouth sales.

When a book is…

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The One Thing That Will Kill Book Sales Dead—And 10 Ways to Avoid it…

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by Anne R. Allen

I never have as much time to read as I think I will, and my trusty old Kindle is pretty loaded up. So I’m a picky book-buyer. Unfortunately, there are a lot of readers like me out here, and you don’t want to lose us.

I’m often intrigued by a book’s cover and blurb, and sometimes a glowing review on Facebook or a book blog will send me to a buy page.

But I never buy without checking out the “LOOK INSIDE!” On most retail sites, that’s 10% of the book—which anybody can read free.

That  “LOOK INSIDE” freebie is your most important book sales tool.

Make sure it’s going to snag readers, not kill book sales just as you’re about to close the deal.

With many books—not only self-published, but trad-pubbed as well—the first few pages will stop the sale for me.

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Darkness Defines the Light – Guest Post by, Tina Frisco…

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Without darkness, light would have no definition. Without evil, good would never be challenged to expand. Without definition and challenge, there would be no growth. Without growth, our spirits would not evolve.

Many indigenous peoples say the Earth is a schoolhouse and we incarnate here in order to learn. This makes sense only if we view the spirit as separate from the corporeal. If we do, then advancing to higher consciousness and an elevated spiritual plane holds great promise for human transcendence.

The Earth is a bipolar planet. Since all matter converts to energy, we can infer that our lessons will be of a bipolar nature. Darkness and evil are not, in and of themselves, our enemies. When we set up something as the enemy, we constrict and lose all prospect of growth. When we see adversity as our ally, our growth potential expands and accelerates.

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Let Us Keep Our Hearts Open – Guest Post by, Tina Frisco…

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Figure 1 Courtesy of Lucie Stastkova

It is easy to close our hearts; not so easy to keep them open. Or so it seems …

When we experience emotional pain, a common human response is fight or flight. Become angry or shut down. Neither of these reactions solves anything, and both can cause serious health problems if sustained over time.

Fear is the culprit in any action or reaction that is not love-based. It obscures awareness and keeps us ignorant of its deleterious effects. It constricts our bodies, imprisons our minds, catapults our emotions, and darkens our spirits. When trapped in fear, it is impossible to keep our hearts open.

If we close our hearts to one, we close them to all. Open is open and closed is closed. At one time, this was a difficult concept for me to get my head around. I thought I could open and…

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